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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THE PLIGHT OF HONGKONG.

REV. J. KIRK MACONACHIE CHAMPIONS THE COLONY,

Rev. J. Maconachie, pastor of Union Church, Hongkong, on the eve of his return to the East after a furlough in Britain, wrote a letter calling attention to the plight of Hongkong, and the seeming indifference to it in Britain to the Daily News. Ha wrote, in part:

Mr. Baldwin spoke, at Brighton for an hour and a quarter. One minute of the 75 he devoted to China-that is to say, about a hundred words.

Hongkong W&S not one of

No those words.

could

one

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1925.

ARMED ROBBERY.

MURDER OR SUICIDE?

BIG HAUL OF BOOTY AT

PECULIARITIES IN WEST POINT CASE.

UN LONG.

Death Inquiry Revelations.

quilt. His throat was not visible, he considered they could have and he could not see any blood on been caused by the chopper. Wit- the bed covoring. He informed nena also described another injury, the police of the occurrence,

on the man's body..

Sergeant T. O'Connor said he went to the house in Sung Hing it was possible that the wounds Lane at about 9.45 on the morn in the throat had been solf-inflict- An armed robbery with violence

ing of the accurrence. The fronted, but it was most improbable. It took place in the early hours of

part of the premises was used as was possible that they were caused yesterday morning in Un Long

shop. He inspected the bunk by a blow from above. He hud ex- Market, New Territory, when tem

Mr. R. E. Lindsell conducted an where the dead man was lying, perimented with the chopper, and men armed with revolvers and inquiry at the Central Magistracy and found that the man had a found it was necessary to use a Mauser pistols got away with about yesterday afternoon into the cir-wound in his throat, and his hands considerable amount of, force to $8,500, and other articles including cumstances surrounding the death were tightly clenched. On the make a similar wound. Apparent a quantity of clothing.

The total of a Chinese named Fong Kui, who right side of the bed he found ly there had been three distinct value of the haul was $11.662. The was found on November 7 with a chopper which was sharper than blows, and while it was conceiv

able that the man had brought the men made good their escape to-his throat cut at a house at West auch instruments usually are.

Point. The jury consisted of wards Chinese Territory,

There were what appeared to be chopper down on his own throat Messrs, C. Bentley (forman) A. bloodstains on the bed, and he also three times, it was very improb The police have also received a

able.

1. report of an attempted armed job. Bertram, and R. E. Macdougal. found similar ataing on the lower bery at the Kwock Lee shipbuilder's yard, Cheung Sha Wan, on Tues-by the police practically satisfied down from above. The upper bunk day night. Three men entered the them that the man's injuries were was about nine or ten feet from About two feet master's house, and removed a safe self-inflicted, but medical evidence the ground. from one room to another, apparent showed that the injuries could above it was a shelf running the

with the intention of taking it hardly have been infileted by the whole length of the bunk.

away.

gather from this address of a British Prime Minister that there is a British colony which is not part of China, but whose interests, and ever existence, are gravely

At the same timo a small imperiled at his hour.

alongside

the came Bampan The Premier did not mention shipbuilding yard, and its that an overflowing and un-five occupanta acted in animous public meeting of British auspicious manner. Whistles were residents had sent urgent reblown, however, and the robbers presentations to the Colonial Offee decamped without taking anything [ 02 ahout July 24, and that nway. One man was arrested.

these had remained unacknow- ledged until the date of a second such meeting, summoned almost August

in despair on 1 think) 27-more than a month later in any case.

At the latter meeting, is the other way, for the Con- $1,200 were subscribed to cable,ference on which he builds his not mere resolution, but hopus is already being discounted reasoned representation of the by the real rulers of China-the utterly serious position, to Mr. military and provincial authori- Baldwin personally. This also,ties, i incredible though it may appear, remained without acknowledgment for many days.

The Trude Loan,

A Reply.

The China Express and Tele- graph comments as follows:

Mr. Maconachie, has been about England, on Since then, indeed, £3,000,000 five months in have been lent to the Colony, furlough, and not much in touch

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confidence," and Mr. Amery has here. He is not to be blamed to realise remarked that the Home Govern-therefore if he fails ment sympathises with the suffer. that Hongkong is but one of the ings of Hongkong. I do not pieces in a very big game which know what is being done with has been going on since he left. the money, but I do know that the East, His statementes regard- eld-established firms are facing ing the virtual acts of war com- rain, and that some of them have mitted against the Colony by the already gone over the brink-this Bolshevik Government of Canton in a colony which a few months are not disputed. Indeed, they ago was leading the world for have been as fully reported here, weight of tonnage in its harbour, as in Ilongkong itself. This and was enjoying an everflowing particular aspect of the case has

been causing the Government serious concern for some time, but we take a broader view of the situation than they

action Hongkong, and drastic lines advocated in Hong-

the i kong's $1,200 telegram to

commended it- Premier has not sell. "Mr. Maconachie's allega- tion that the Colonial Office has been apathetic towards the re- presentations of British residents in Hongkong is hardly in accord with the facts. There has been.

revenue,

I am about to return to Hong- kong to do what may he possible in one's own sphere to keep the flag flying. But I can only con- firm the view of every other Colonist I have met in England, which is that the English public does not know and does not apparently wish to be told how vast are our Imperial interests in the Far East, and how gravely they are threatened.

Hongkong is an land, as truly

of it.

out

or

do in tho

a part of the Empire as New Zea-almost daily communication be land; and the Empire is faced just tween the Colonial Office and the Governor since the begining of now with a determined and deeply July, as a result of which the plotted attempt to drive us

arrangements, for a £3,000,000 loan. which involved extensive Yet the British have built negotiations, were pushed through. hundreds of schools and colleges The object of the loan is to for Chinese; and when flood

restore the confidence of the famine comes they are the first local Chinese, and some success to be appealed to, and the most in this direction has already been generous in response. They have

achieved. Indeed, the mere an- changed a barren rock in two

nouncement of the loan had an kenerations into one of the lead- ing commerical centres of the immediate moral effect, and the world, where Chinese thrive by Governor is now understood to [hundreds of thousands and find consider it unnecessary to raise refuge from the insecurity of any more than the £1,000,000 which Singapore 60 promptly The British community thero advanced. As for the Foreign feels slighted and deserted, its Office, it has also been very much claims neglected by Government, on the alert, and Hongkong has Press and public alike. This undoubtedly received its full know from the Hongkong news share of notice in the papers and from the letters of

their own country.

close

able and cool-headed correspond-attention which Mr. Chamberlain

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Mr. Lindsell said that inquirtea bunk, caused by blood dripping

man himself. It was for the jury to determine whether it was a case of suicide or one of possible murder.

Denth with Severe Pain, ·

Dr. E. P. Minnet, medical officer in charge of mertuaries, anid the, The first witness called was man appeared to be about 38 years Cheung Chung, a pork dealer liv-fof age. There was a cut in the ing at 11 Sung Hing Lane. He lower portion of the throat about safd Fong Kut went to live on his three inches long, and two inches floor at the house about a month wide. It extended down to the ago. He occupied an upper bunk bone, being between 1 and 2 In the early hours of the morning inches deep. of the 7th, as witness looked into his bunk, the man appeared to be lying in a sleeping position,

The

Self-Infliction Improbable.

From the examination he had made of the body and from he con- dition of the wounds he was in-

elined to think there was less possibility of them being self-in- flicked. It would be difficult for the man to raise his arm to inflict the wounds, but it was possible.

The blows were made while the neck was extended, probably with the nape of the neck resting on

nese pillow with the head fall- ing backwards. The causes of death were haemorrhage fnd shock.

Evidence was also given that deceased was a man of qulet tem. perament, and was on good terms with the other people living in the

The wind pipe had been pene-. trated, and the arteries; blood ves sels and muscles severed. man's fingers were contracted, in- Wound in the Throat.

dicating that death had been very Witness notleed a quantity of sudden und accompanied by

The man was severe pain. There were other The inquiry was adjourned until blond on the bed. covered up to his neck with smaller wounds on the throat, and next Wednesday at 2.15 p.m.

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